[nandemo]

I'm learning the flute, and I know how painful it can be to struggle just to play one note in tune and a good tone, compared to playing a note on the guitar or the piano.

But it looks like you're comparing pop guitar/piano with classical cello. If you can always take a cello and play jazz, or even pop music. Then the comparison would be more fair.

Also, tenor clef is no harder than other clefs. It's just a different offset. If you learn intervalic reading you can read any clef.

[kzhahou]

If you've read treble your whole life, tenor may as well be rot13.

Ditto treble -> bass, or any new clef.

[scarecrowbob]

Really depends on how you read. If you read "this note means this finger", yeah. But if you're reading intervals and translating to "play the root, then the third, while sustaining the fifth", then different clefs are just like reading in different key signatures.